Monday 28 January 2013

Blog post! Blog post!


Last week I was in Spain,
sitting next to a mountain river,
watching students measure flow rates.
It was raining and very cold
but I was with my friend Jenny
and she is a good person to be with.

At some point that day,
even though I was cold and wet,
the creative switch in my brain
that has been turned off
flicked on again.

At the end of the afternoon
I took off my gloves and said
"would you like to see me
take a blog photo?"

Jenny laughed because
it was only a dried up brown shrub...
I don't think she believed me.

*****

for Jenny

32 comments:

  1. So glad to have u back! Alison

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hooray! So happy to see a post from you, Mrs M!
    For this, I will brave the dreaded "prove you're a human" verification box.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Welcome back!! Grand opening photographic gambit. Love it.

    ReplyDelete
  4. yea!! You're back! I've missed reading your posts!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Finallly! I have missed you, really.

    ReplyDelete
  6. How lovely to see you back again... you are always missed. And what a coincidence because when I was out this morning, I suddenly thought of you and wondered if you were ok. I was going to email you when I got back home.

    ReplyDelete
  7. You're back. hooray! I missed you.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Happy new year! I've missed you too and am so glad you're back!

    ReplyDelete
  9. It's obvious to me that it is an inspiring shrub.

    ReplyDelete
  10. I confess I didn't believe you - I am very glad to be proven wrong in such a magical way. I can't stop smiling.

    Thank you, I have lovely memories of that afternoon... seriously the smile isn't going away...
    Jenny xxx

    ReplyDelete
  11. What everyone else has said ... you were missed :)

    ReplyDelete
  12. So nice to see you back in blogland.I missed your posts and pictures. They make me think and look with different eyes to the world. Thank you that you are here again!

    ReplyDelete
  13. I hope you get a thousand comments today welcoming you back! :)

    ReplyDelete
  14. It may be merely a brown dried shrub, but it contains all the promise of spring!
    Glad your back.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Lovely to have you back Alice - nice photo!

    ReplyDelete
  16. Hooray. Normal service is resumed :-)
    Corinne

    ReplyDelete
  17. Hooray! How lovely to see you back. I've really missed your posts.x

    ReplyDelete
  18. Glad you are back, Alice. Your blog post brightened the blustery, west country, January gloom.

    ReplyDelete
  19. Oh there you are, welcome back!

    ReplyDelete
  20. Oh, you have been missed, you've been worried about and thank goodness you are back. It's wonderful.

    ReplyDelete
  21. Ah good! You're back! Lovely to see you again!
    Andrea

    ReplyDelete
  22. You've come back!

    (And I was admiring that picture even before you said anything about it!)

    ReplyDelete
  23. oh, welcome back! happy new year - may it be filled with colour and creativity :-)

    ReplyDelete
  24. never been to pleased to see a picture of a dead plant x

    ReplyDelete
  25. I agree with everyone! So glad you have started writing again! It's like getting a lovely letter in the . . . post! Welcome back!

    ReplyDelete
  26. Oh! How lovely...welcome back. That must have been an interesting feeling to be so aware of. And we get the beauty of your earthy, wintery photograph. xo

    ReplyDelete
  27. Liz in Missouri (USA)January 31, 2013

    OH YEEEEEAAAAAAA! So glad you are back!

    ReplyDelete
  28. Welcome back and a happy new year! Here as all hell breaks loose in the new term, I missed your missives which are oftentimes the sanity to which I cling.

    ReplyDelete
  29. So glad you are back, Alice! I haven't checked here for a few weeks - glad I clicked over.

    ReplyDelete

Thank you! I love reading your comments and even though I don't always have time to reply I am really grateful to every one who joins in the conversation.